"If solar and wind are as cheap without subsidies as recent stories claim, why do countries need to set targets like this?"
Because coal companies still get heavy subsidies all around the world, without which they can't survive. This gives them and their miners an early warning to look for another job.
"Some time ago, Facebook decided that following a page from a publisher is no longer enough for you to see all of the posts from that publisher. An algorithm decides who gets to see which posts you get to see what which ones you don't. At the same time, they added the ability for publishers to pay to promote their posts, which prevents the algorithm filtering them out of the feeds of their followers."
"Along similar lines, I wonder how many of those devices will have any actual evidence of wrongdoing?"
Exactly. In my local newspaper, they often post articles of a caught 'drug-dealer' with photos of 25 grams of MJ, 60 bucks in singles (the bastard) and an assortment of old phones they found in a drawer, they obviously were all the phones the guy ever owned, 5 or 6 generations of phones from the last 10 years or so. I guess the cops think he's Stringer Bell.
"Do you use bold and all-caps because you only want me to read those bits, or is it because you want me to read those bits more intensely than the non-bold-or-all-caps bits?"
Don't be so harsh. The kid went to a HTML-course yesterday.
"I don't think this is the real cause. What happens is that people get used to cameras, just like celebrities or people on reality TV shows forget to keep a poker face after a while because the cameras are always there."
The decent ones among them never needed cameras in the first place and the other ones never change, no matter what you clip on their sleeves.
So it knows every song played in the gym, why can't it be used to _tune out_ that song playing right now with my noise-supressing headphones, since it knows every tone in advance and hasn't to guess? Then I could hear _my_ music playing in my headphones. Would also be great for the barmen in nightclubs and other places playing loud music.
When you're at home, you can talk to your family when they're also at home. Pure genius, I say. The millennials don't know that feeling, that we old farts had for a hundred years of so.
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"If solar and wind are as cheap without subsidies as recent stories claim, why do countries need to set targets like this?"
Because coal companies still get heavy subsidies all around the world, without which they can't survive. This gives them and their miners an early warning to look for another job.
"The only reason to attract birds is to feed cats."
Naw, also people without cats looove great tits.
""Tech's biggest companies are placing huge bets on artificial intelligence (Warning: may be paywalled;"
And also no paywall, if you delete your cookies after the allowed number of articles.
These 'paywalls' are a joke.
"Some time ago, Facebook decided that following a page from a publisher is no longer enough for you to see all of the posts from that publisher. An algorithm decides who gets to see which posts you get to see what which ones you don't. At the same time, they added the ability for publishers to pay to promote their posts, which prevents the algorithm filtering them out of the feeds of their followers."
The word you're looking for is 'extortion'.
"Chinese Scientists Create Less Tasty Pigs"
The crossbred it with the 'long pig' variant.
"Stephen Hawking's Thesis Crashes Cambridge Site "
Well, there's a lot of gravity in that thing.
Don't they have toilets there?
It all lands in the sea anyway.
"Along similar lines, I wonder how many of those devices will have any actual evidence of wrongdoing?"
Exactly. In my local newspaper, they often post articles of a caught 'drug-dealer' with photos of 25 grams of MJ, 60 bucks in singles (the bastard) and an assortment of old phones they found in a drawer, they obviously were all the phones the guy ever owned, 5 or 6 generations of phones from the last 10 years or so.
I guess the cops think he's Stringer Bell.
"Do you use bold and all-caps because you only want me to read those bits, or is it because you want me to read those bits more intensely than the non-bold-or-all-caps bits?"
Don't be so harsh. The kid went to a HTML-course yesterday.
Tons of dupes and moronic 'ask slashdot' questions that can be answered by 2 minutes of googling.
when Frazier was cancelled.
...Trump 'university'.
"I don't think this is the real cause. What happens is that people get used to cameras, just like celebrities or people on reality TV shows forget to keep a poker face after a while because the cameras are always there."
The decent ones among them never needed cameras in the first place and the other ones never change, no matter what you clip on their sleeves.
"Lockhart compares them to "people sword-fighting on a tightrope."
If you see that you lose, you can always cut the rope.
They didn't mean crimes the cops committed, so be sure to send tons of those.
"Well, considering their 1.2 billion people DB hasn't leaked .."
Leaked? You just have to download the whole thing, you get everything.
from a couple of years ago..
'UPS Deploys 18 New Zero Emission Electric Trucks In Texas '
https://pressroom.ups.com/pres...
In Amsterdam (Netherlands) they have been using electric trucks for at least 5 years.
So it knows every song played in the gym, why can't it be used to _tune out_ that song playing right now with my noise-supressing headphones, since it knows every tone in advance and hasn't to guess?
Then I could hear _my_ music playing in my headphones.
Would also be great for the barmen in nightclubs and other places playing loud music.
As our Granddads believed it was.
Seems to be a given,
...it must be a dildo.
Can't wait for the first complaints: "Oh, no! Not rebooting _now_ for an update!"
When you're at home, you can talk to your family when they're also at home.
Pure genius, I say.
The millennials don't know that feeling, that we old farts had for a hundred years of so.
I prefer that any day of the week, better than idiotic ads that cover my reading area or flimmer around the screen, giving me eye-cancer.
I'd vote for a 'Mine me' setting that removes all the ads that come through my ublock and ghostery.
No more 1500$ toilet seats and 300$ hammers?
No more paying Boeing 20 times the amount needed?
(as hidden subsidies, so that they can still exist on the world market?)
"Treason? Most of this looks like routine diplomatic communication, lobbing, etc."
It's only 'diplomacy' if you're already elected, before, its also a crime, albeit still another different one than treason.